drollery meaning in General Dictionary
The quality of becoming droll sportive tips buffoonery droll stories comical gestures or ways
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- a quaint and amusing jest
- a comic event or number of situations
- the standard of being droll; sportive tricks; buffoonery; droll tales; comical motions or manners.
- something acts to increase mirth
- A puppet show; in addition, a puppet.
- A lively or comic photo.
drollery meaning in Etymology Dictionary
1590s, from French dr
drollery meaning in General Dictionary
(n.) The caliber of being droll; sportive tricks; buffoonery; droll stories; comical motions or ways.
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- (n.) something that acts to increase mirth
- (n.) A puppet program; also, a puppet.
- (n.) A lively or comic picture.
Sentence Examples with the word drollery
I followed all his movements with my hands, and caught the drollery of his blunders and gestures in a way that would have been impossible had it all been spelled to me.